California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 18236

WIC § 18236 Effective Jun 27, 2019Div. 9 · Part 6 · Ch. 3.3 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The director may approve school attendance demonstration projects in San Diego and Merced Counties, at the option of each county, to demonstrate means of increasing school attendance and graduation rates of children or teens who receive benefits under the CalWORKs program. The project shall emphasize a social service approach to children and families who are experiencing truancy problems, and shall include collaboration with the academic community to support a successful school experience. Families shall be provided a range of services, resources, and tools to assist them in coping with issues related to their children’s school problems. These shall include integrated services involving the county and the appropriate school districts. After all other avenues to encourage a student to attend school have been exhausted and a family has failed to correct the truancy of a child in the family unit, a participating county may reduce a family grant by the amount of the truant child’s portion grant. The full grant shall be replaced upon a showing that the student has attended school full-time for one month or has otherwise cooperated with an education or training plan developed with the county and the school district.

(b)Participating counties shall measure their success in achieving the following outcomes:

(1)Increased attendance and graduation.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 27, Sec. 116. (SB 80) Effective June 27, 2019.